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o1 · Custom Home Builder The Woodlands & Florida

Custom homes,
without the noise.

Single-family residences in The Woodlands and multifamily developments across Florida — built between global supply chains and local craft.

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o2 — About the practice
Est. 2014 The Woodlands · Miami GC Lic. #TX-148209

We bridge the gap between
global innovation and local craft.

o1 Single-family residences in The Woodlands, TX.
o2 Multifamily & luxury developments across Florida.
o3 Materials sourced from six countries, finished on site.

At UHUSA we source materials internationally and execute them locally. You benefit from premium materials at competitive prices — without the friction of a fragmented supply chain.

We don't just build homes — we craft experiences. For architects, designers, developers, and the people who will live inside.

How we work
o1 / In practice 11yrs Since 2014
o2 / Delivered 42 Residences & developments
o3 / Sourced from 06 IT · ES · DE · BR · PT · US
o4 / On staff 14 A deliberately small team
o2 / Region

The Woodlands projects

Single-family residences. Custom architecture, ICF construction, hill-country light.

118 S Timber Top Dr o1 / o4
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o4 / Geography

Two regions.
One practice.

We operate where supply chains meet appetite for considered architecture — the wooded north of Houston and the coastal density of South Florida.

The Woodlands, TX
o1 · Single-family
4 residences
South Florida
o2 · Multifamily / Luxury
3 developments
o5 / Process

Five steps,
no surprises.

Every UHUSA project follows the same five movements — from the first site visit to the final commissioning report. Scroll to see how the counter advances.

Stage o1
Discovery of 5
2–4 weeks 01/05
o1 Discovery 2–4 weeks

Brief, site, intent

We start in the room with you. Site visits, references, constraints, the kind of life you want the building to support. Output: a one-page brief signed by everyone.

o2 Design 12–16 weeks

Schematic to construction documents

Three options at schematic. One direction at design development. Construction documents in close dialogue with the engineers and the materials we have already sourced.

o3 Procurement 8–24 weeks

Materials from where they are best made

Italian stone, German fenestration, Brazilian hardwood, Texas brick. We negotiate directly with mills and quarries, then handle import, inspection, and on-site staging.

o4 Construction 12–18 months

Build, with our crews

ICF foundations, steel where the loads demand it, framing tolerances tighter than code. Weekly site walks. Daily photo logs. A single point of contact on every phase.

o5 Handover 12 months warranty

Turn the key, stay close

Commissioning, owner walkthrough, a year of attentive aftercare. We don't disappear when the lockbox comes off the door.

o6 / Materials

Specified, sourced,
and accounted for.

The supply chain is part of the design. We name every material on the spec sheet, source it from where it is best made, and inspect it before it ever gets to site.

Download full specification sheet (PDF, 2.4 MB)
M-01 USA · Texas

ICF Foundations

Insulated concrete forms. Continuous thermal envelope, hurricane and seismic resistant, R-23 minimum.

SpecR-23
M-02 Italy · Tuscany

Italian Stone

Cararra, Calacatta, Travertine. Quarried, slabbed, and book-matched before crossing the Atlantic.

SpecSlab 20mm
M-03 Germany · Bavaria

German Fenestration

Triple-glazed lift-and-slide systems. Argon-filled, warm-edge spacer, hidden frames.

SpecU 0.7
M-04 Brazil · Pará

Brazilian Hardwood

Ipe and Cumaru for decks and rainscreens. FSC certified. Kiln-dried, end-sealed, finger-jointed.

SpecFSC
M-05 Spain · Valencia

Spanish Tile

Hand-fired terracotta and porcelain. Custom dimensions to the millimetre, glazes mixed on order.

SpecCustom
M-06 Portugal · Estremadura

Portuguese Limestone

Lioz limestone for facades and ground floors. Honed or flamed, sealed against South Florida humidity.

SpecHoned
M-07 USA · MA

Smart Systems

Lutron, Control4, Savant. Lighting, audio, climate, security on a single low-voltage backbone.

SpecLutron RA3
M-08 Japan / USA

Mechanical / HVAC

Variable refrigerant flow, energy recovery ventilation, in-floor radiant where the climate rewards it.

SpecVRF · ERV
o8 / The People

A small team.
On every project.

UHUSA is intentionally small. The same four people you meet at the first walk-through are the four people on site the week of handover.

Eduardo Ortiz

Founder · GC

Twenty years in custom residential. Houston native. The contact on every project.

Lila Marchetti

Design Director

Milan Polytechnic, formerly at SOM Florence. Joins every project at schematic.

Marcus Hale

Procurement Lead

Negotiates with the mills, books the freighters, signs the QC reports.

Anya Pohl

Project Manager

On site three days a week. Owns the weekly photo log.

o9 / Recognition

In print & on record.

We do not employ a publicist. The work travels on its own.

Architectural Record
March 2026

The most disciplined ICF detailing we have seen in single-family work in a decade.

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Texas Monthly · Home
November 2025

A refusal to compete with the photography, in a market that usually shouts.

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Florida Design
August 2025

Where the supply chain itself becomes part of the brief.

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AGC of America
May 2025

Recognised for excellence in residential construction practices, 2025.

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10 / Journal

Notes from the practice.

Long-form pieces about the work — process, materials, the parts of the spec sheet that do not photograph well but matter most.

Essay 04.26

A framework for building between supply chains

How we source Italian stone and German fenestration without losing the line of sight to the site.

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Technical 02.26

ICF in the South — the case for continuous insulation

Thermal envelopes, hurricane resistance, and why we use ICF on every Florida tower.

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Site notes 01.26

Two weeks on site at 120 Timber Top

From slab pour to first framing, photographed every morning at 6:40am.

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11 / Stay in touch

One quiet email a quarter. New projects, new pieces, nothing else.